Product Requirements Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Product Requirements
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Product Requirements skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Product Requirements 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 0.52% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 - -
South West median daily rate £375 - £438
% change year-on-year - - -16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Somerset

Product Requirements falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 142 135 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 73.96% 79.88% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 89 97
10th Percentile £162 £205 £143
25th Percentile £259 £381 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £523 £638 £588
90th Percentile £600 £749 £680
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 25
10th Percentile £41.67 - £35.00
25th Percentile £60.31 £12.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £14.50 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year +331.03% -72.06% +3.78%
75th Percentile £63.75 £24.25 £62.92
90th Percentile £63.83 £38.20 £65.00
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £59.84
% change year-on-year -61.31% +8.62% -7.94%

Product Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Product Requirements relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset.

Product Requirements job vacancy trend in Somerset

Product Requirements
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Product Requirements.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Product Requirements

Product Requirements
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Product Requirements within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 6 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bath - 1 £200 -
Product Requirements
South West

Product Requirements
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
General
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) IT Support
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft